Canada’s Residential Schools: A Saga of Journalistic Malfeasance
On May 27, 2021, Rosanne Casimir, the local leader of the main Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc reserve in British Columbia’s southern interior, made a startling announcement: ground-penetrating radar had discovered 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The following day, the New York Times reported, “‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada.” World media swiftly followed suit, and claims about the graves of more than 1300 missing children at former residential school sites suddenly popped up across Canada.
The stories grew more sensational. As veteran political reporter Terry Glavin noted in the National...
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